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Second Great Awakening: begins a century of reform work in America
Reform work attacks poverty, alcoholism, illiteracy, abuse of women and declining moral values
Important people: Charles Finney: people have the power to
change themselves Lyman Beecher: good people make a good
nation
Temperance: an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption Caused people to
lose control Threat to family
life
What was “the pledge”? Name a group that was
active in ending alcohol consumption.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
What did they speak against?
How did people react to the radical abolitionists?
Abolition: movement to end slavery
Key Figures: Nat Turner:
organized a slave revolt in Virginia
Harriet Beecher Stowe: wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that criticized slavery
Describe the first reaction to feminism.
What happened in Seneca Falls, NY?
What did the Declaration of Sentiment state?
Did women get any rights after the Declaration?